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Wande
Abimbola |
Wande Abimbola is currently the officially
appointed delegate to Boston from Nigeria
to represent and transmit the tradition
of Ifá. As Babaláwo and Àwise
Ni Àgbáeé ("spokesperson
for Ifá in the World"), he is
a renowned scholar of Ifá thought,
Yoruba theology and traditional culture.
He is president of the International Congress
of Orisa Tradition and Culture. He is also
Professor of African Religions at Boston
University.
Dr. Abimbola has written extensively on
the Yoruba tradition, authoring such works
as Seminar on Yoruba Oral Tradition, Poetry
in Music, Dance and Drama, Sixteen Great
Poems of Ifa, Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa
Literary Corpus, and Ifa Diviniation Poetry,
and is a contributor to Secrecy: African
Art that Conceals and Reveals (Mary H. Nooter,
ed.). One of his most recent books is Ifá
Will Mend Our Broken World: Thoughts on
Yoruba Religion and Culture in Africa and
the Diaspora.
For more in-depth biographies, please visit:
www.blackworld.com
www.afrocubaweb.com
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